Word: nouveau
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Another Part of the Forest, like Hellman's earlier play The Little Foxes, concerns the Hubbard family of Alabama, a nouveau riche, money-hungry bunch in which the strong make a practice of destroying the weak. In choosing the subject, Hellman has gone beyond her immediate roots--divided between New York and New Orleans--to the more remote history of her mother's clan, the New houses, an Alabama banking family who had moved to New Orleans and whose squabbles Hellman witnessed as a child at Sunday dinner...
...Born Yesterday remains remarkably, if depressingly, up to date in its two main themes--corruption and sexism. Harry Brock (Lorenzo Mariani), a nouveau riche junkyard magnate, comes to Washington to "buy himself a senator," bringing in tow his empty-headed mistress, an ex-showgirl named Billie Dawn (Sarah McClusky). Deciding that Billie needs a little polishing up in order to "fit in" with the Washington social scene, Brock hires Paul Verrall (Jerry Colker), an earnest young writer for The New Republic, to be her tutor...
...flatness of Miró's pictures begins in the formalized Romanesque murals he saw as a child in the museums and churches round Barcelona. His drawing, too, is in Catalan. It stems from art nouveau, the civic style of turn-of-the-century Barcelona, whose façades and courtyards Architect Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) and his disciples encrusted with an exuberant riot of decorative line. In Gaudi's hands, art nouveau took on a tumid, visceral energy that no other European architect could manage...
...decided to go to the lucrative upper-deck trade and challenge the successful students. I went to the upper deck commissary and demanded to sell hotdogs. I hoped to combine the style of Veteran's Stadium fixture Charlie "Hotdog" Frank and the hustle of the nouveau-riche dog-men. Nevertheless, lacking the seniority to sell the high-profit-margin dogs, I settled back to the 35-cent cokes and prayed for an instant heat wave...
London was not the only European capital to come down with a case of political instability. In Paris, French President Georges Pompidou decided that it was time for a change and replaced an old Cabinet with a new one headed by a not-so-nouveau Premier. In Rome, yet another shaken Italian coalition government fell-or, rather, was pushed into resigning. Items...